This Participation Support request from a User who works with the Boston City Archives is to attend the upcoming Open GLAM Launch in Berkeley: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:BostonCityArchives/US_OpenGLAM_Launch_Weekend.

Before making a decision about whether or not to fund the request, we wanted to gauge the interest of some local Wikimedians in working with the Boston City Archives. Does anyone have experience working with the archives, or is anyone interested in getting involved with their work releasing their digitized images on commons, or does anyone have other information that might be useful to us as we're considering the request?

By the way, for those of you who may not have heard much about the Participation Support Program, it is a reimbursement program that funds the travel costs of contributors who are participating in events such as meetings and conferences. It doesn't fund participation in Wikimedia-movement-organized events such as Wikimania or events organized by local chapters - requests for scholarships to attend those events should still go through the event organizers (who are welcome to apply for a grant through the WMF Grants Program: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index). To learn more about the program and see some examples of successful requests, please visit http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Support or write to us at participation@wikimedia.org at any time.